Ufos, Conspiracy Theories and the New Age: Millennial Conspiracism

by David G. Robertson

Book Overview

How-and why- were UFOs so prevalent in both conspiracy theories and the New Age milieu in the post-Cold War period? In this ground-breaking book, David G. Robertson argues that UFOs symbolized an uncertainty about the boundaries between scientific knowledge and other ways of validating knowledge, and thus became part of a shared vocabulary.

Through historical and ethnographic case studies of three prominent figures-novelist and abductee...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350044989
• ISBN13: 9781350044982
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"